The film "Let the Fire Burn" will be screened in the Campus Theatre on Tuesday, March 20, at 7 p.m., followed by a conversation with the film's director Jason Osder. The event is part of the The Griot Institute for Africana Studies' Spring Lecture and Performance Series on the theme of “Erasure: Blackness and the Fight Against Invisibility.”
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On Mar. 21, Ramona Africa will be talking about the need for people to stop looking to politicians and to this system, for solutions. The event will take place in the Gallery Theater, Elaine Langone Center at 7 pm. The talk is will be titled MOVE and Black Erasure.
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The President’s Diversity Council and the MLK Week Committee will lead a moment of silence and reflection on the 50th year since the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Wednesday, April 4, at 11:45 a.m. at the Brawley/King Bust, Vaughn Literature Garden, in the Humanities Quad. The rain location will be the lobby of the Weis Center for the Performing Arts.
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Contemporary artist Dread Scott will deliver a free, public talk titled "Activism and the Erasure of Subversive Art: Imagine a World without America" on Wednesday, April 4, at 7 p.m. in the Gallery Theatre of the Elaine Langone Center. A reception with Scott will follow in the Samek Art Museum.
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Pamela Newkirk, Ph.D., a media scholar, author and award-winning journalist whose work highlights the historical omission of multifaceted portraits of African descendants in scholarship
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